Two US hedge funds suing Argentina for full payment on defaulted bonds Friday rejected the country’s offer to settle the suit with a deal that would give them just 25 percent of what they were seeking. “Argentina’s years of defiance cannot be cured by a convoluted offer to give…
National Dems attack Sanford with “Appalachian Trail” ad
National Democrats have waded into Mark Sanford’s congressional race, launching an attack ad that references the “Appalachian Trail” and Sanford’s affair during his time as governor of South Carolina.The ad, called “A Walk,” shows someone hiking through the woods, meant to signify “hiking the Appalachian Trail,” or what Sanford staffers said he was doing when he disappeared from the state in 2009 and went to Argentina for an affair. Sanford “walked out on us, violated our trust, secretly used thousands of taxpayer dollars flying to Argentina and then lied about it,” the ad says.”Sanford paid the largest ethics fine in state history. Now he wants our trust again? Maybe Mark Sanford should just keep walking,” it continues.Continue Reading… … Read More
Argentines remember war under Thatcher
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Argentines remember Margaret Thatcher as ‘cold, aggressive, and odious’
Argentines offered bitter reflections on Margaret Thatcher on Monday, portraying the late former British prime minister as a warmonger who prolonged the Falkands War for political ends. Several Argentine veterans of the 1982 conflict that provided Thatcher with one of her career’s defining…
Argentina – Officials in Formosa province suspected in radio station fire
Reporters Without Borders hopes that the police will quickly establish who was responsible for the fire that caused major damage to Radio Génesis in Ingeniero Suárez, in the northern province Formosa, on 5 April. The fire destroyed the radio station’s equipment within 20 minutes at around dawn and, as a result, it is no longer able to broadcast. An accident seems to be ruled out as a large quantity of fuel was found at Radio Génesis and its door had been forced, owner Aníbal Palma said. The (…) … Read More
Argentina in mourning as floods kill 54
Argentina’s government declared three days of national mourning from Wednesday after massive flooding killed 54 people in Buenos Aires and the nearby university city of La Plata. At least 46 people died as flood waters hit La Plata about 60 kilometers (40 miles) south of the capital,…
